Sentence examples for combat away from inspiring English sources

Citing his thirty-three years in the Army, "including nearly five years in combat away from my family," he asserted himself as, above all, a family man and a patriot.

Senior legal advisers to the military campaign say unarmed civilians, whether living in towns or fleeing the fighting, are clearly meant to be protected by the United Nations resolution, while opposition forces taking an active part in combat away from cities are currently seen as falling outside of its protection.

He could hear the enormous thunder of combat farther away and then the deep rumble of more combat farther away still.

A1 Attacks on vital supply lines in and out of Baghdad are posing new hazards to civilian contractors and siphoning short-handed combat forces away from the main fight against militants to fight the attacking insurgents, senior commanders said.

The attacks on the supply lines are posing new hazards to civilian contractors who operate many of the convoys and siphoning short-handed combat forces away from the main fight against militants, senior commanders said Monday.

Jerome (combat pilot), passed away at 84. Born in Borough Park, Brooklyn.

The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), broke away in 1998.

The Army has charged that Sergeant Bales, 39, who was serving his fourth combat tour, walked away from his remote outpost in southern Afghanistan and shot and stabbed members of several families in a nighttime ambush in the villages.

The Army has charged that Sergeant Bales, 39, who was serving his fourth combat tour, walked away from a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan and shot and stabbed members of several families in an ambush in two villages in the early morning hours of March 11.

I love to hold onto hope during the darkest times; but when I know in advance that no amount of concentration, care, comfort or combat will battle away the untreatable unspeakables that grew within this small boy, and that do during the game's duration, I can't find within myself the strength to even begin.

This has been a high-profile deployment for the military after a decade in which the public has mainly seen them engaged in combat in far-away countries.